Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 25

So the Tsarévna at once wrote to her father: “Look for Nikíta, the tanner at Kíev, and send him on to me to deliver me from my imprisonment.”

Who acts: Tsarévna, my · What happens: write, look, send on, deliver, imprison · To what, where: father, NIKÍTA, Kíev, imprisonment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 wrote	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarévna	det
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 wrote	obl
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Look	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Look	punct
12	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrote	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Nikíta	case
14	Nikíta	Nikíta	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Look	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tanner	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tanner	det
17	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Nikíta	appos
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 Kíev	case
19	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tanner	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 send	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 send	cc
22	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Look	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 send	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	22 send	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 send	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 deliver	mark
28	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 send	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 deliver	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 imprisonment	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 imprisonment	nmod:poss
32	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 deliver	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Look	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	the Tsarévna		Tsarévna's father			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	infinitive	the Tsarévna not said here				for Nikíta	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nikíta=Theme
3	send on in a quote	infinitive	the Tsarévna not said here	NIKÍTA = nikíta	Kíev			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination
4	deliver in a quote	to-infinitive	the Tsarévna not said here	Kíev		my imprisonment		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from imprisonment=Initial_Location
5	imprison in a quote		my					nom imprisonment «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 25

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 25